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...times a year this money is distributed on a percentage basis to the society's members. Members are rated according to the length of their membership, the popularity of their songs, their prestige. Irving Berlin ("Easter Parade"), Carrie Jacobs-Bond ("A Perfect Day"), George Gershwin ("Rhapsody in Blue"), Jerome Kern ("OP Man River"), the estate of Victor Herbert, are AA?the highest paid rating. They represent a class whose songs are most actively played today, receive in copyright royalties between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. There is an honorary Permanent Class A for good writers...
...readers who turned to current issues of American Machinist for the original advertisement failed to find it. Asked where he got it last week, Columnist Lore explained that he had quoted it from an editorial column in the Kern County Union Labor Journal, edited in Bakersfield, Calif, by one Wallace Watson. Editor Watson said he had picked up the text of the advertisement from a column in the April issue of the New Leader written by Socialist Norman Thomas...
...same man had written gentle, reminiscent "Easter Parade" and stomping Harlemy "Heat Wave." The box-office success of As Thousands Cheer beats that of Of Thee I Sing, the 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning show for which George Gershwin wrote the music. It is running far ahead of Jerome Kern's Roberta, although no single show tune is selling so well as "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," Roberta's lifesaver...
Song enthusiasts will argue interminably over the respective merits of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin, the important triumvirate in the U. S. songwriting industry. But comparisons are inept. George Gershwin, more technically ambitious than the others, has more musically ambitious enthusiasts. Jerome Kern has never claimed to be a popular songwriter. Like Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, he writes wholly for shows. His charming music would fit well into the best of Viennese operettas. When Alexander Woollcott wrote his biography of Irving Berlin (1924), he asked Jerome Kern to supply a colleague's estimate. Kern was reminded...
Neither Postal's President Major General George Sabin Gibbs nor I. T. & T.'s Sosthenes Behn was on hand to defend Postal's stand. But Vice President Howard L. Kern, taking a tip from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, hoisted the red flag of "unfair propaganda." Anyone with half an eye, said he, could see that "the code proposed by NRA was designed to meet the abuses pointed out by Western Union representatives themselves." Though the code would cost Postal $2,767,000 per year in increased wages, the company was willing to subscribe...